xi, 335 p. : 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Mapping cinema experiences. New cinema histories / Richard Maltby -- Methodologies : mapping cinema exhibition. Re-imagining the history of the experience of cinema in a post-moviegoing age / Robert C. Allen -- Putting cinema history on the map : using GIS to explore the spatiality of cinema / Jeffrey Klenotic -- What to do with cinema memory? / Annette Kuhn -- Distribution, programming and audiences. Social class, experiences of distinction and cinema in postwar Ghent / Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers and Lies Van de Vijver -- Distribution and exhibition in the Netherlands, 1934-1936 / Clara Pafort-Overduin -- Patterns in first-run and suburban filmgoing in Sydney in the mid-1930s / John Sedgwick -- Hollywood and its global audiences : a comparative study of the biggest box office hits in the US and outside the US since the 1970s / Peter Kramer -- From Hollywood to the garden suburb (and back to Hollywood) : studies in exhibition and distribution in Australia / Mike Walsh -- Blindsiding : theatre owners, political action and industrial change in Hollywood, 1975-1985 / Deron Overpeck -- Venues and their publics. "No hits, no runs, just terrors" : exhibition, cultural distinctions and cult audiences at the Rialto Cinema in the 1930s and 1940s / Tim Snelson and Mark Jancovich -- Going underground with Manny Farber and Jonas Mekas : New York's subterranean film culture in the 1950s and 1960s / Peter Stanfield -- Searching for the Apollo : black moviegoing and its contexts in the small town U.S. South / Arthur Knight -- Film distribution in the diaspora : temporality, community and national cinema / Deb Verhoeven -- Cinema, modernity and the local. The social Biograph : newspapers as archives of the regional mass market for movies / Paul Moore -- Modernity for small town tastes : movies at the 1907 Cooperstown, New York, Centennial / Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley -- Silent film genre, exhibition and audiences in South India / Stephen Hughes -- The last Bemboka picture show : 16mm cinema as rural community fundraiser in the 1950s / Kate Bowles

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